Writer Takes Issue With George Will`s Viewpoint

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

In his Feb. 21 column George Will berates Bill Clinton for proposing drastic changes to a ``surging`` economy.

Surging?

With thousands facing firings at GM, Sears, IBM, Boeing and other corporate giants, this is a surging economy?

Health care costs have risen through the roof.

The elderly, many with crippling arthritis, have seen medication costs increase fourfold. And the interest payments on their meager savings, which helped pay for rent, food and other necessities, have practically disappeared.

It is true that the economy does show signs of coming back to life but instead of a surge it is more like a trickle upwards. Trickles have a way of sometimes coming to a halt.

Will also lauds progress made during the Reagan presidency. The 19 million jobs that Reagan supposedly created were in industries that produced fairy- tale space stations, military planes that could not get off the ground, and millions of destructive weapons now being destroyed.

Most of the Reagan employment came about when women entered the labor force to supplement a husband`s income so that mortgages, insurance premiums, car loans, children`s college tuitions and other payments could be made on time.

We must thank Reagan for contributing $3 trillion to the national debt, $100 billion to the deficit and ignoring 98 percent of the population that are hurting today.